1 She did not return for five months more; five months crammed with greedy accumulation of sounds and colors to take back for the long still days.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXXVIII 2 They have gone on hoping and believing that general education and financial strength would solve the difficulty, and are devoting their energies to the accumulation of both.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-BarnettGet Context In IV 3 The greater the accumulation of deceit and trouble in the world, the brighter and the purer shone the star of Dora high above the world.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL 4 There will be a large accumulation of property.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar WildeGet Context In THIRD ACT 5 The granite solidity of such and such a celebrated prose is nothing but the accumulation effected by the tyrant.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 6 To-night the pressure of accumulated misgivings sent the scale drooping toward despair, and her indifference was the more chilling after the flush of joy into which she had plunged him by dismissing Denis Eady.
7 She opened the three windows, bringing in the smell of oak leaves and earth, but the fresh air could do little toward dispelling the sickening odors which had accumulated for weeks in this close room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXIV 8 Lily sat silent, taking the brunt of it quietly, letting it spend itself on her to the last drop of its accumulated falseness; then, without a word, she rose and went down to her cabin.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 2 9 The sense of weariness returned with accumulated force, and for a moment she felt that she could walk no farther.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 13 10 Carol was touched by his efforts to enjoy picture galleries, and the dogged way in which he accumulated dates and dimensions when they followed monkish guides through missions.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXXIV 11 It seemed as though, by some nameless, interior volition, he would fain have shocked into them the same fiery emotion accumulated within the Leyden jar of his own magnetic life.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck. 12 His accumulated thought upon such subjects was used to form scenes.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen CraneGet Context In Chapter 8 13 Yet the long journey and the accumulated terrors had shaken the hearts of the stoutest among them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH 14 By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.
15 He did not care what happened so long as a good store of stone was accumulated before he went on pension.